A further blaze incident occurred at Fiddoch Court in Newmains. Residents reported a fire at 8am on the morning of July 17.

The fire and rescue service attended, along with police, and extinguished the blaze.

Following on from inquiries, an 18-year-old male from Newmains was arrested and appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court on July 20.

The youth pleaded not guilty and was released with bail conditions.

This is a very serious incident that could have caused serious injury or death.

There continues to be reports in the community of bogus workmen and people going from door to door trying to get work from jobs like your gutters cleaned, gardening etc.

Bogus workmen are a problem and they can be very convincing.

There are plenty of legitimate businesses out there that provide this type of work and I would ask you all to be extra vigilant and make sure you always ask for identification and if in any doubt don’t answer the door and contact the police telling us any information you can for example description and direction they left in.

We respond to these calls and will carry out checks to confirm these people are who they claim to be.

We would rather do this and have a false alarm than you be scammed out of your money.

A regular Sunday complaint received for the Murdostoun area is the use of quad bikes and scrambler bikes on the parks and fields.

This is a form of antisocial behaviour and can be noisy, disruptive and dangerous. A person must have permission to do this and they are not permitted in public parks and council-owned land.

This is an offence and to stop this we need your help. Contact the police anonymously if need be and tell us who is responsible.